De Gaulle family on the front line

What’s in a name? Quite a lot, it seems, if it happens to be De Gaulle. The grandson of the former French president has decided to stand for Jean-Marie le Pen’s National Front in next month’s Euro-elections, much to the annoyance of the rest of the extended family.

European Voice

5/25/99, 5:00 PM CET

Updated 4/12/14, 4:41 AM CET

In a letter to Charles de Gaulle Junior published in the French newspaper Le Monde , the general’s 57 grandsons, daughters, nephews and nieces wrote that “your name does not belong to you if it is used to defend the ideas of men who, for over half a century, have been the enemies of that which General de Gaulle represented”.